Émile Parisien is, at his 36 years of age, one of the leading renovators of European jazz. He is a musician of broad technical training, who takes his inspiration both from Igor Stravinsky and from John Coltrane. He has already won some of the major awards given in France to jazz artists: the Django Reinhardt Award in 2012 and the Victoires du Jazz award in 2014 and 2017, the latter precisely for the album Sfumato.